mulakat.pro
An interview preparation tool that generated mock interviews from a job description and a CV. It parsed both, worked out where the candidate fell short of the role, and turned that gap into an ordered study plan with voice-based practice. Built solo over four or five months. Stopped the same year it launched.
What it did
The framing was gap analysis rather than a question bank. The CV and the job post were parsed into structured signals — skills claimed against skills required — and the delta became the product: an ordered preparation plan, a readiness estimate, and mock interviews generated against that specific role instead of a generic template. Voice practice existed because speaking is the part of an interview people fear; a typed Q&A rehearses the wrong skill.
Why it stopped
Two reasons, and the first one is structural.
In Turkey, preparing for an interview is not the hard part — getting one is. Postings collected thousands of applications within hours and most candidates were never evaluated at all. A preparation tool only matters after you have cleared that step, which means I had scoped the problem at the wrong point in the chain. I assumed the scarce resource was preparation. It was attention from a person on the other side.
The second reason is simpler: job seekers have no income and no certainty about when they will. Asking them to pay put the product in the exact category of spending that gets postponed indefinitely.
Neither problem was fixable by iterating on the product. When the domain came up for renewal, I let it lapse.